Child&#39;s bed or crib gown



Aug. 20, 1929. s w 1,725,031

CHILDS BED GR CRIB GOWN Filed Dec. 10, 1927 gvweutoz .Do/IsyJ. Ward @51 fil-Homwg Patented Aug. 20, 1929.'

UNITED STATES DAISY 8. WARD, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

PATENT OFFICE.

CHILD'S BED on CRIB Gown Application ma December 10, 1927. Serial Io. man.

coverings, result in the throwing off of these coverings or a workin up of the childs body toward the head of tie bed or otherwise so as to cause the child to suffer unintended and in the type of nightdress for such child with which this invention is concerned. This is so, because the night'dress provided by the invention is a sleeping garment somewhat of the long or infant gown type, that is, including a skirt portion of greater than foot-bottom length; this skirt portion having, at or near the bottom of the skirt, tying tapes or the like secured at opposite sides thereof, for being wrapped and tied around fixed side parts of the crib or bed at or near the lower end of such crib or bed. (Such tying tapes per se are known in the art; but have heretofore been proposed for rectangular woolen bags, to anchor such bags to a rigid support.)

hese strains and stresses will hereinafter be referred to by describing them as up-pulling ones; since, when the child is clothed in a sleeping garment according to the invention,

and such tapes are anchored as above, these strains and stresses are applied as, and result from, pulls along the aforesaid skirt portion of the new sleeping garment, from the bottom portions of the garment (at or near the securement of the tying tapes to the garment) up toward the portions of the garment sleeving the neckand overlying the shoulders of the child.

One of the important objects of the present invention is to provide a tape-equipped gownlike sleeping garment having a shaped in waist portion and a skirt portion rather rapidly downwardly diverging in width, and in which sleeping garment the tying tapes are secured to t e garment by a securement to tape-like reinforcements of the garment, in silcll manner that the tying tapes cannot be t rn off by the up-pullmg strains aforesaid.

of age or there merely illustrative Another object is to provide a garment as ust described, wherein the various garment to in the last preceding 'paragraph, will not create stresses at seamoints, and so will not injure the garment y causing rips at seams or tears of the material at points removed from the seams.

Another object is to above described, wherein the various ment parts are also so proportioned and related that the up-pulling strains aforesaid, unrelieved by the tearing loose of the tying garinjured by neck-band pressure.

Various other objects and advantages of those hereinabove mentioned will be specifically pointed out or will apparent hereinafter in the course of the below detailed descriptionof the form of the invention shown, in the accompanying drawing, as a preferred one of the various ossible embodiments of the invention; it ing understood, naturally, that such form is of one of the many possible combinations and arrangements of parts well calculated to attain the objects of the invention, and hence said detailed description ofsuch form is not to be taken as at all defining or limiting the invention itself. That is to say, the scope of protection contemplated is of course to be taken from the appended claims, interpreted as broadly as is consistent with the prior art. In accompanying drawing:

ig. 1 is a perspective view showing a child clothed in one form of and laid in a crib, but with the child notyet covered over with the usual blanket;

Fig. 2 shows said form of garment in front elevation, said functional attributes being indicated in dotted lines;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective View, showing the inside surfaces of a fragment of the garment at the bottom and alongside one of the two side-seams; and

Fig. 4 is likewise a perspective view, but partially in section taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

provide a garment as chest; sleeves 9; a skirt portlon 10; and tyingtapes 11 at opposite sides of the bottom of the skirt portion. This skirt portion is desirabl so long that the childs feet will be a consi erable distance above the bottom thereof.

When, as shown in Fig. 1, the child is clothed in this garment, and is laid in the crib 12, and the tying tapes 11 are wrapped and tied around the foot-posts 13, it will be seen that the child can move up or down in the crib, that is, toward the head or foot of the crib, freely for some distance (but only for that distance), and can turn and twist from side to side, and can even sit up in the early morning, all without kicking loose or creeping out of the sleeping garment. .Similarly, it will be seen that a blanket orblankets (not shown) placed in the usual way over the child as arranged in Fig. 1 at good-night time,

and then tucked in around and under the mattre$ in the usual way, cannot, as the result so cut that the whole garment is a sin 1e uni- -ment is not onl of any tossing or rest essness of-the child, be kicked off or loose or disarrangedin such a way as to leave the childs body unprotect by the blanket covering.

To facilitate the turnings and twists from side to side just referred to, the garment is fairly loose at the waist, as indicated (particularly in 1) yet, to attain other advantages as be explained in a moment, the garment is shaped or cut in at the waist, as indicated at 14 in Fig. 2, in sharp contradistinction to' the rather unusually great tymg width of the skirt portion bottom. As will be. seen in 1 of the drawing the lower end of the t portion of the garment is referably made as wide as a childs crib., llus rmits the tying tapes 11 to be secured at any position along'the sides of the crib if desired, rather than at the bottom.

To attain all the objects of the invention hereinabove specifically referred to, the garthus .cut and shaped, but is also constructe as follows: With the arms 9,-

preferably not seamed along the lines 15, that is, with the rment material inerely folded along said hnes,-so that the front and back portions of each sleeve are parts of a unitary piece of material, andalso with the garment piece of material, the sleeves 9 are one sleeves; and there are but two seams, one at such free-edge sired, such as ed ment and the making 0 tapes 11 for each of the opposite sides of the garment, to wit, the two seams marked 16; in addition to finishing seams as may be dethose around the neck band 6 and along the edges of the placquet 7, around the outer ends of the sleeves 9, and around the skirt bottom. I

The garmentis so cut that thereis a distinct rounding of these two side seams 16 where the sleeves 9 join the waist portion of the garment. Note that these two seams 16 not only areunintersected by any other seam or seams, but are continuous and uninterrupted from the outer end of a sleeve to the bottom of the skirt portion.

Note, from Figs. 3 and 4 particularly, the manner in which these continuous and uninterrupted seams 16 are constructed. Said seams are along their entire lengths reinforcedby a single lengthoftape, preferably if not essentially bias-cut tape 17. This tape 17 is folded on itself as clearly shown in Fig. 4, to enclose parallel-laid edge rtions of the out parts of the garment material to be joined to make the seams 16 a structure I have found to be ultimatel so strong that a single line of stitching, as ill ust'rated at 18 in Figs. 3 and '4, through all the four plies of material at the seam, is ample to attain the objects of the invention.

In connection with what has just been said as to the lines 15 representin fold and not seam lines, it should Qbeexp ained that the sleeve 9 to the left in Fig. 2 is shown, not as actually laid out durin 7 cutting of the garthe seams 16, but as sli htly drooped from its own weight.

y reason of this construction for the seams 16, I have found that the two tying each side of the garment may at their urpgerends stitchedin place, and with the desi merely by such stitching as 19 in ig. 3, when the up tapes fora side 0 about an inch of their length, are laid flat over that indicated at r portions of the the garment, for

security against tearing loose,

the seam 16-on that side of the garment, and

the 19 is applied so as to the two tying tapes asrwell-as a plies of the seam.

By reason of this through construction, I have the four also found that no stress transmitted by.

an lip-pulling strain on the tapes when made fast to the bed or Cl'lb, may cause a seam-rip anywhere ora tearing anywhere of the material at points removed from seams.

otherwise sha and seamed as illustrated and already; described, achild-therein,l

in a crib to which the garment has secured as in Fig. 1, cannot throw either tshoulder to a point far enough to the right or to the left freely turn to even tho -the child may ice The garment being cut in at the waist and w one eek or the other.

a neck a straight line,

on the pillow and may freely change from either of these positions to a supine one), l

in such manner as to cause a cutting of the childs neck by the neck band. This is a thing even the chance of which nomother or nurse would tolerate in a sleeping ment of any kind. that such a chance the health of the child, as being not only a possible cause of pain, but also of infection or choking. Yet in all previous sleeping garments intended to be anchored at or near the bottom to a bed-part near the foot of the latter, such hazards have been inevitable, because of such very anchoring of the garment to the bed, an end in itself so highly important to protect the child against exposure. I have found b repeated tests that it is utterly impossible fbr the child, clothed in a garment according to the present in vention and tied into bed as shown in Fig. 1, ever to have even the slightest indication of undue ressure at or near the neck or anywhere e se on the body, even after a very restless night.

In explanation of thi 2, and articularly the dotted lines. Assume the chi d in this garment, and the latter secured at its bottom by the tying tapes 11 as shown in Fig. 1. Assume the up-pulling strain is from the shoulder of the childs body alon side the arm in the sleeve to the ri ht in l ig. 2. These thin s then occur: Tfie cut-in waist portion shi ts from 14 to the dotted line location 14. The material stretches upwardly until the shoulder-overlying part of the line 15 at the right shifts to the dotted line position 15. Simultaneously, the up-pulling stress is along the dotted line S,and, according as this stress is of greater or less intensity, a more or less marked line-bunching or rippling of the garment material. occurs along side line S. All the upulling strain from the childs body is receive by the I that art of it now located at 15. The and 6 becomes even looser on the neck. There is of course absolutely no pressure from the neck band 6, either on the side of the arment where the line S is set up, or on the other side of the garment, or on the front or back thereof. The up-pulling strain is absorbed along substantially a running through the tying tapes 11, the taped-seam 16 up to the point S where the line S commences, through said straight'line S, and to the upper. end of the lattera substantially straight line passs last, examine Fig.

garment at the line 15, in

ing by several inches beyondthe neck band ocation.

In the new garment, as shown in the form illustrated in the drawing, it is also preferred to have the sleeves 9 of such length that the outer ends thereof just about extend to the finger ti s of the child, as indicated in Fig. 1. T us, the fin ers are not bagged, yet ordinarily, and whi e the child is asleep, even the fin ers of the hand are given some covering. It is also preferred to provide the illustrated garment with tiestrings as indicated at 20, so that these may be tied around the hands or-wrists, to ,prevent drafts from blowing up the sleeves 9.

Inasmuch as many changes could be made in the above construction, and many apparently widely different embodiments of the invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, that all matter contained in scription or shown in the drawing shall be interpreted and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the language contained in the following claim is intended to cover all the generic and specific features of the invention herein described, and all statements of the scope of the invention'which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

claim: A sleeping.

the above deaccompanying as illustrative garment of the character described having an upper body rtion with sleeves and an integral lower s irt portion, said skirt portion extending downwardly for a considerable distance to der-and-over blanket covering without folding of the skirt portion when the wearer is in a reclining osition, the lower end of said skirt portion ein substantially as wide as a bed, the upper ody portion and its integral skirt portion being formed from a section of fabric folded to form a pair of like sections,- said sections being joined by two continuous and uninterrupted side seams running from the outer ends of the sleeves and along the bottoms of the sleeves and along the waist and skirt portions of the garment down to the skirt bottom at op 0- form an unit is intendedsite sides, said seams being provided with DAISY s. WARD. 

